Results of Qualifying Day 2 of China Open 2011
The Qualifying Round 2 of the China Open 2011 held on 25th February at the Sunny Sheffield has been completed.
The overall results for the day are:
Alfie Burden 5 – 1 Zhang Anda
Liu Song 5 – 0 Adrian Gunnell
Joe Jogia 5 – 2 Xiao Guodong
Kurt Maflin 5 – 4 Jack Lisowski
Joe Delaney 5 – 3 Jimmy Robertson
Barry Pinches 5 – 3 Liam Highfield
David Gilbert 5 – 0 Ian McCulloch
Jimmy White 5 – 3 Liu Chuang
Bjorn Haneveer 5 – 3 Kuldesh Johal
James McBain 5 – 2 Jamie Jones
Issara Kachaiwong 5 – 1 Andy Hicks
Rod Lawler 5-1 Kyren Wilson
Stuart Pettman 2-5 James Wattana
Anthony McGill 0-5 Ben Woollaston
Matthew Couch 5-4 Paul S Davison
Joe Swail 5-3 Michael White
Sixteen best-of-nine matches were played on the day. Most of the matches played were cagey and one-sided, but for a few exceptions.
In round one, all four Chinese players had made it. But three of them, Zhang Anda, Xiao Guodong, and Liu Chuang, lost their battles in the second round playing against Alfie Burden (5-1), Joe Jogia (5-2) and Jimmy White (5-3) respectively.
However, Liu Song had a pretty comfortable 5-0 win over Adrian Gunnell.
The best match played in the round was in the morning session between Kurt Maflin and Jack Lisowski. It was an evenly-matched, fully stretched battle between both the players that was eventually won by Maflin. There have been seven centuries produced in
Round 2 out of which four were seen during the Lisowski-Maflin match, including the highest-break of the tournament so far – Maflin’s break of 140.
The other important match was in the evening where the legendary Jimmy White waited to play local boy Liu Chuang. White couldn’t play his best and a time came when he was trailing Chuang 3-2. However, he bounced back and took control of the game, winning
the next two frames in succession to stand victorious with a 5-3 scorecard.
The second and third highest breaks of 140 and 138 were produced by Jimmy Robertson and Stuart Pettman, but both of them succumbed to their opponents. However, David Gilbert, who also contributed a century break of 101, won five-frames-to-nil against Ian
Mcculloch.
Matches to be played in the Round 3 qualifiers are:
Matt Selt vs. Alfie Burden
Tom Ford vs. Liu Song
Anthony Hamilton vs. Joe Jogia
Dave Harold vs. Kurt Maflin
Mark Joyce vs. Joe Delaney
Rory McLeod vs. Barry Pinches
Robert Milkins vs. David Gilbert
Peter Lines vs. Jimmy White
Nigel Bond vs. Bjorn Haneveer
Mike Dunn vs. James McBain
Tony Drago vs. Issara Kachaiwong
Michael Holt vs. Rod Lawler
Steve Davis vs. James Wattana
Jamie Burnett vs. Ben Woollaston
Fergal O’Brien vs. Matt Couch
Alan McManus vs. Joe Swail
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